Terror tracks: music, sound and horror cinema
Terror tracks: music, sound and horror cinema
Commissioned and edited to appeal to a crossover Film and Music Studies readership, Terror Tracks is an anthology that analyses the use of music and sound in the popular genre of Horror cinema. Focusing on the post-War period, contributors analyse the role of music and sound in …
Ilan Eshkeri's Stardust: a film score guide
by Sapiro, Ian
fromScarecrow film score guides
Ilan Eshkeri's Stardust: a film score guide
by Sapiro, Ian
fromScarecrow film score guides
The Hollywood film music reader
The Hollywood film music reader
A rich and informative look at the experiences of composers working under high pressure in the US film industry, The Hollywood Film Music Reader brings readers from film's earliest days to the modern blockbuster era. Beginning with the origins of movie music in the heyday of sil…
Annotation Beginning with the earliest experiments in musical accompaniment carried out in the Edison Laboratories, Kathryn Kalinak uses archival material to outline the history of American music and film. Focusing on the scores of several key composers of the sound era, includi…
Although writers on film music frequently allude to specific parts of scores, comprehensive examinations of entire scores are rare. In addition, most analyses of scores composed for the screen are discussed outside their cinematic context. To best understand the role music plays…
The Oxford handbook of film music studies
This title gathers two dozen original essays that chart the history and current state of interdisciplinary scholarship on music in audiovisual media, focusing on four areas: history genre and medium, analysis and criticism, and interpretation.